The Joad family flees Dust Bowl Oklahoma for California, only to encounter poverty, exploitation, and shattered hopes along the migrant road.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on January 9, 1949. It is listed as episode 23 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Clarke Gordon, Earl Lee, Gwen Delano, Howard McNear, and J. Donald Adams. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director, Don Diamond as producer, Richard E. Davis as radio adaptor, Don Diamond as host, and Don Stanley as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 60 minutes.

This version dramatizes The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck is credited as author and Richard E. Davis adapted it for radio.

A literary anthology presenting radio adaptations of important novels and plays, designed to bring major works of literature to a broad audience and at times used alongside university study programs.